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WHY DO SUNDAY BIBLE SCHOOLS GROW FOR A WHILE,
REACH A PLATEAU, THEN DECLINE.? A
rough draft by Grady E. Lee VITAL CONCEPTS: 1. Everything has within itself the seeds of
its own destruction. 2. There is no perpetual motion. Without
upkeep things run down. 3. The cycle of Natural Law - birth - growth patterns -
maturity - old age – death The same in
organizations, but rejuvenation is
possible with the good leadership. 4. There is only one thing in life that is constant. That,
is change. To meet this change the leader must analyze the needs, study the
possible solutions, plan an attack deputize helpers, and vitalize the plan.
Someone has said, AThe primary source of success or failure is between your ears.@ 5. To Sustain growth - Investigate failures, Prioritize
needs, begin again, 6. Don=t let a spirit of failure invade or
control. Develop a Acan do@ spirit. 7. Sunday Bible Schools can be re-invented 8. Point of satiety. Economics teaches there is a point of satiety. When
something must be done immediately or diminishing returns sets in. This
process also operates in every organization. PROBLEMS CHURCHES FACE AND THE NEED FOR
EXCELLENT SUNDAY BIBLE SCHOOL PROGRAMS.
Who is teaching your children? What are they learning? Parents
actively direct their children=s learning process or by parental
default others do it. ....Television: A child watches conservatively, 5 hrs a day,
(7days) 35 hrs. a week, 150 hrs a month, 1825 hrs. a year. ....Public Schools: 7 hrs. a day, (5
days) 35 hrs. a week, 140 hrs. a month 1260 hrs. a year. (180 days) ....Church: (maximum) Sunday &
Wednesday, 4 hrs, a week, 16 hrs. a month, 108 hrs. a year. INTRODUCTION: THE MAJOR REASON WHY THE SUNDAY BIBLE SCHOOL
CAN OR WILL GROW IS; because of the one in charge. There is absolutely no way
to discount the one in charge. He will be behind the growth or failure. This
concept is fully understood by the board of directors and leaders of large
corporations. If the CEO does not get the job done, he is fired and a new one
obtained. Behind every church that grows or fails is the leader. It is his
spirit, wisdom, knowledge, ability, human relations, choice of heads of
departments, delegation of authority, planning or lack thereof that brings whatever the end result is, or
will be. Pastors who dictate, or do everything
themselves, or who believe that all they have to do is open their mouths and
God will fill it and people will come, is of the greatest detriment to a
church. He is doomed to failure. The leader is the change agent for improvement or
decline. God will not bless a lazy preacher. Some pastors
may declare, Abut you do not know the people of this
church.@ True but God does. If God truly called
the pastor there, then he expects the pastor to rise to the occasion and do
what ever is necessary to grow a spiritual church. Either the pastor learns
(1) what the problems are, (2) learns the wisdom and skills necessary to
accomplish the good God intended, and (3) be wise enough to preach nourishing
messages to build up the faith and confidence of the people under their
leadership, or (4) failure is inevitable. A pastor himself must constantly
grow, by investigating, learning and developing, or else perish. It would be
far better to resign and leave, than drive a church into the ground. |
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